CGar
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but a quick search didn't turn anything up. Stablebit Scanner detected some bad sectors on one of my old hard drives (THANK YOU STABLEBIT) this morning and I have started shopping replacements. I'm looking at the Seagate Exos X14 12TB, but one of the Amazon reviews mentions that Seagate drives use some non-standard S.M.A.R.T. reporting values. Searching Reddit similarly brought up many accounts of people freaking out for no reason for the same problem, Seagate's 48-bit hex S.M.A.R.T. reporting format is different than the industry standard.
I'm using much older Seagates (6 yrs+) with Stablebit Scanner, and infact the failing drive is a Seagate. So my question is, if I purchase a newer Seagate hard drive, is Scanner going to have any issues reading/reporting correct S.M.A.R.T. information?
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Thank you Spider99 and Drashna for your feedback, that was extremely helpful! =)
Also thank you for the heads up about the lack of Remote Desktop in the Home version, I probably would have gotten screwed by that, I will definitely be going Win 10 Pro!
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Hi there! I wanted to inquire about the process about potentially upgrading/migrating my server from Windows Home Server 2011 to Windows 10.
I'm very happy with how the StableBit products have been working with WHS2011, it has been a great Steam Mirror/Plex/File backup server for me and all of my files are protected! However with the home server product line being discontinued and as I look towards the future, I think I may want to be proactive rather than reactive about keeping my HTPC updated and secure. Also now that the server edition prices are much higher, I feel like I don't really use the server features all that much, so a standard home edition would be fine (mainly media streaming and file storage).
From all the reading I've done it seems like the Windows 10 support is fairly good, although I do see some bugs popping up here and there, and I guess I just wanted to get some confirmation before I did anything drastic.
- I know it's been stated a few times, but as of today, is the latest DrivePool beta stable enough to store pictures/videos/movies/tv shows etc. on Windows 10?
- Same question for the Scanner product, is it working well in Windows 10?
- Is this the correct upgrade process?
- Un-register the DrivePool / Scanner licenses on the current server
- Install Windows 10 on the HTPC with a full wipe & clean install on the SSD hard drive (not the data HDDs)
- Install DrivePool/Scanner on the new Windows 10 installation, the attached drives should be automatically recognized and rebuilt.
- By "downgrading" from a server edition to a home edition, am I losing any functionality with DrivePool / Scanner?
- Am I overlooking anything not mentioned here?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Ok, to first answer your question, there were all brand new drives, but I formatted and created simple volumes on each of them that span the whole disk (via the Windows partitioning tool)
A little bit of catching up since my last post. So since enabling file duplication failed on 1.3.5.7571 RC, I decided to try out 1.3.3.7563 release.
I uninstalled RC and then removed the add-in, and restarted my server.
I then installed release and went to the Dashboard. I noticed that the enable file duplication button was missing, and in its place were 3 duplication settings buttons (check duplication consistency, balancing..., and remeasure). I have tried all of these options to see if anything would happen, but I don't think it did. The consistency check says that my pool is 100% healthy, but I'm pretty sure my files are not duplicated. I put ~1.8 TB of data onto the virtual pool, and the dashboard reports 1.79 TB of used space, with 12.8 TB free. If I am understanding this correctly, that occupied number should be doubled.
Today, I read your post about tracing the error, so I set out to see if I could reproduce it. I un-installed release and re-installed the RC, but alas, the enable duplication button is still gone, and the other 3 options are there. I went ahead and enabled the tracing as the Wiki entry specified and re-ran the consistency checker just to see if it would add anything useful to the log. I then disabled tracing and archived the logs and uploaded it to the tool with the name "ChrisG683_Service_Logs.zip" It looked like some of the logs from the other days were still in there, so I left them.
If there's anything else you would like me to do, please let me know =).
I got a PM from Alex asking me to set up a meeting, so I set one for tomorrow.
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Hey there, I just finished building my new homeserver with Windows Home Server 2011.
I've got 4 x 4 TB storage drives that I have succesfully pooled with DrivePool, but I cannot seem to enable File Duplication. I have already copied some of my files over to try it out and the files have copied over successfully
I am currently running DrivePool 1.3.5.7571 RC, and every time I try to enable File Duplication, an indeterminate progress dialog pops up for a while, then after about 5 minutes, I get an error popup that just says
"Error Changing Duplication
The parameter is incorrect"
Do you guys have any advice or insight as to what is going on here?
Seagate 48-bit hex S.M.A.R.T. compatibility
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Thank you so much for the information!